Saturday, 23 May 2015

Russell T. Davies wants Steven Moffat to bring back River Song

While a lot of us may all be sitting here, wistfully hoping Steven
Moffat is not entirely done with River Song — actress Alex Kingston recently said her story wasn’t over yet — the Doctor Who
showrunner has admitted he had some reservations about the Doctor’s
wife spending more time with our beloved Time Lord. Nonetheless, the
Moff doesn’t rule out her return to the BBC series. At least, if it's
done right:

"It entirely depends on whether we've got a
good story. It's certainly not ruled out. I have a sort of worry about
keeping anybody around in the Doctor's life for too long. Because he's
the Man who Leaves. He's the man who outlives everybody: that's his
story. In the end it's the boy in his box, and he's alone. In the end if
we had a great story, we'd do it."

Could the man for the job be former Doctor Who
showrunner Russell T. Davies? He really seems to be keen on seeing
River with Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth incarnation of the Doctor, although
he's currently busy with Channel 4’s drama series Cucumber, a show that is "really, really about sex" (Davies’ words,
not mine). Here’s what Steven Moffat recently revealed about an
interesting chat he had with Davies, who said a pairing between Alex
Kingston and Peter Capaldi would be a "sex storm":

"I
mentioned in passing to Russell that we were probably done with River.
He said, 'You can't be done with River! No, no, no. Capaldi and
Kingston, it's a sex storm!' So if you see an episode called Sex Storm
by Russell T Davies in his post-Cucumber years... [there will be] lots
of editing from me saying 'We really can't do that, you've forgotten
which show this is….'"

The last time we saw River
Song, was in "The Name of the Doctor," in which Matt Smith’s Eleventh
Doctor seemingly said goodbye forever (well, for Eleven, it probably was
forever ...) to his wife’s digitally preserved consciousness. But hey, Doctor Who
is all about time travel, is it not? What do you guys think about
Russell T. Davies' argument to Steven Moffat for bringing back the woman
formerly known as Melody Pond?